biography
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Composer, French hornist, educator, and jazz scholar, born in New York City, New York, USA. He became first chair of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at age 19. He left that post to pursue composition and teach at Yale (1964–6), and was president of the New England Conservatory (1966–77). Meanwhile, he taught at Tanglewood in the summer and directed the music school there (1974–84). A prolific composer, his mature work uses 12-tone technique often inflected by his involvement in jazz. His prose writings include the classic 1968 study Early Jazz. |
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